How to Succeed as Freelance Designers: 7 Tips from UK Designers

Design How to Succeed as Freelance Designers: 7 Tips from UK Designers Translation of the article How to thrive as a freelance graphics designer on how to develop remotely, criticize your work and eventually become a cool designer. I want to share with you tips from figures in the design ...

Anchor objects: balance in composition

Design Anchor objects: balance in composition Balance composition is a requirement that forms the correct focus of the user’s attention and clearly conveys meaning and information. There are several ways to achieve balance in a composition, one of which is anchor objects. So, anchor objects are the logical arrangement of ...

Stop talking about logos on a white background!

Design Stop talking about logos on a white background! To understand what this is about, imagine for a second that you understand wines. No, you don’t just understand – you have devoted many years to this, follow the news, know the history of famous varieties and most winemakers. Why, you ...

Who to contact for design

Design Who to contact for design How to choose a contractor by budget and tasks? Here’s how freelancers, design studios and branding agencies differ from each other. Freelancers They work individually and often do everything at once – they draw logos and corporate identity, make up websites, and do not ...

How to deal with brushes in Photoshop and start living

Design How to deal with brushes in Photoshop and start living What is the problem? For several years I painted in Corel Painter, a couple of brushes were enough for me and everything was fine. Then I climbed into Ps and brushes began to accumulate without my will in an ...

22 YouTube channels for designers and programmers

Design 22 YouTube channels for designers and programmers YouTube is growing, and more professional content is being produced every day. We have compiled a selection of 22 best channels about web design, post-production and programming. Each of them has a zest for which the audience loved them. Subscribing to these ...

10 best films about designers and for designers

Design 10 best films about designers and for designers Every thing created by man has not been without design work. And if even 30-40 years ago designers worked only in the applied field (fashion, architecture), then nowadays they have moved to digital. Each representative of this profession came to it ...

13 Russian-language mailing lists for designers and designers

Design 13 Russian-language mailing lists for designers and designers UX designer Anton Grigoriev has collected all useful Russian-language mailings that will be useful to designers and designers. Collected interesting mailing lists for designers and designers in Russian, to which you can subscribe via e-mail. Without any digests from the medium ...

Anne Swan Botanical Illustration in Colored Pencils

Book Anne Swan Botanical Illustration in Colored Pencils An excellent guide for any botanical illustration lover. Colored pencils – such a familiar (but at the same time, well forgotten since kindergarten) material will open up new horizons for you in the development of botany. In the book, in a bizarre ...

Unpaid work and the value of graphic designers

Design Unpaid work and the value of graphic designers Recently I saw a site that was “held hostage” by a web designer. On a gray background there was an inscription in large letters “Site unavailable”. Below it was signed “This site will be unavailable until the company pays the agreed ...